February 13, 2018
LISTEN: Melody Baetens discusses Paczki Bombs, Detroit restaurants and roll-and-roll
Melody Baetens is a woman of many hats. By day, she covers entertainment and restaurants for The Detroit News. By...
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February 10, 2018
Brooks Patterson’s comments on regional transit put the nails in the coffin for 2018
Some things just refuse to die. Like the longstanding divide between city and suburbs that has for so long characterized...
February 1, 2018
LISTEN: Will a new regional transit proposal make the ballot in 2018 in Detroit?
Last night we attended the annual meeting of the advocacy group Transit Riders United, where the fate of the Regional...
January 18, 2018
Why it’s perfectly OK that Detroit lost out on the Amazon HQ2 bid
And in the end, Detroit will not get Amazon’s HQ2. No $5 billion investment, no 50,000 new jobs. We didn’t...
January 12, 2018
History in photos: Ferndale is 100 years old
When I first set out to write about Ferndale’s 100th birthday as a municipality, I had anticipated having to use...
January 7, 2018
PODCAST: Clearing the smoke from Michigan’s fast-changing medical marijuana industry
There have been a lot of changes recently in Michigan’s nearly decade-old medical marijuana industry. The Legislature passed new laws...
December 24, 2017
8-Wood’s favorite albums of 2017
Let’s face it: 2017 was a brutal year. It made 2016, itself no peach, seem like the Good Ol’ Days....
December 5, 2017
MDOT down to 2 alternatives to replace I-375 in Detroit
Interstate 375’s days are numbered. The mile-long freeway, which destroyed an historic African American neighborhood in Detroit 50 years ago...
November 13, 2017
Work to begin soon on 8MK restaurant in former WWJ building
Crews will soon begin work converting an historic former WWJ transmitter building on Eight Mile Road in Oak Park to...
October 10, 2017
PODCAST: Detroit Hispanic Media partnership aims to find ‘strength in numbers’
The Detroit area’s Hispanic population is growing and now numbers an estimated 280,000 residents. It’s been riven by fear in...
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